The Morris County Courthouse in Morristown.Robert Sciarrino/ The Star-Ledger

MORRISTOWN — A former employee at a Rockaway Township massage parlor pleaded guilty today to molesting a female client in June 2011.

Michael Halstead, 23, of Hawley, Pa., who worked at Massage Envy, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Morristown to a charge of criminal sexual contact and agreed not to seek a massage therapist's license in New Jersey. A charge of sexual assault was dismissed.

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The Morris County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking a sentence that would require Halstead to serve 90 days in the Morris County jail as a condition of probation. His attorney is seeking a sentence that would not require jail time. Halstead is scheduled to be sentenced May 10.

Halstead pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with having sexual contact with the 44-year-old woman for the purpose of arousing himself. The sexual assault indictment that was dropped had accused him of performing a sex act on her.

A complaint filed against him in Superior Court said he put his hand down the woman’s underwear about an hour into a two-hour massage.